Sentence examples for physical powerlessness from inspiring English sources

The first warning sign is the sense of physical powerlessness, which sets in as soon as the campaign starts.

A prevailing theory holds that boys are simultaneously aware of their own physical powerlessness and society's mandate that they serve as protectors of the innocent.

"That she can't meet my every need, that she doesn't know everything I think, that frustrates her beyond all measure," Milla notices, still conscious, in her physical powerlessness, of her emotional power over her ward.

In the case of the mathematically sublime, the displeasure comes from the awareness of the inadequacy of our imagination; in the dynamical case it comes from the awareness of our physical powerlessness in the face of nature's might.

In this situation "the irresistibility of [nature's] power certainly makes us, considered as natural beings, recognize our physical powerlessness, but at the same time it reveals a capacity for judging ourselves as independent of nature and a superiority over nature…whereby the humanity in our person remains undemeaned even though the human being must submit to that dominion" (§28, 261 262).

These women describe feelings of powerlessness and physical pain.

You're powerless, and powerlessness itself becomes the enemy.

The pastoral context in eastern Ethiopia and the characteristics which render pastoralists vulnerable to environmental change are the subject of significant study, with the concept of vulnerability used to describe 'states of susceptibility to harm, powerlessness, and marginality of both physical and social systems' (Adger 2006).

Symptoms include nightmares, intrusive images, excessive fear and anxiety, powerlessness, emotional numbing, irrational guilt and physical symptoms such as headaches, backaches and gastrointestinal distress.

It is not hard for anyone with even a modicum of empathy to see that childhood sexual abuse can lead to feelings of betrayal, guilt, powerlessness, low self-esteem, poor mental and physical health, as well as difficulties in forming relationships.

He kept them "in a state of powerlessness," prosecutors said, "through a program of prolonged physical, sexual and psychological violence".